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6 Rock Exercises with Drum Beats and Fills

These 6 Rock Exercises are selected from the pdf ebook ‘40 Beats and fills Exercises – Book 3‘.

I have selected these 6 exercises because they give a good insight to the book as well as being a really useful resource on it’s own. Perhaps a drum teacher would print this off for their pupils to work on, or a drummer might want to focus on rock drumming and use this on it’s own for several sessions.

The difficulty levels range from about grade 3 to grade 6, which I would say is advanced beginner to intermediate.

Below is a copy of the other two pages. You can also get the PDF file from here: https://payhip.com/b/JESGw

Sheet 3 – Beginners Drum Warm Up Exercises

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Beginners Drum Warm Up Exercises

The difficulty on this sheet goes slightly higher with adding 8th notes to the drum beats and the drum fills are a little more advanced too, especially the rhythm of the crash and bass drum hits at the end. A drum teacher can help with this. Once you hear the rhythm it shouldn’t be too hard. You can hear the same rhythm of the ending crash cymbals (in the penultimate bar of this sheet) at the start of a famous song called We Found Love by Rhianna. Whenever I see this rhythm in any music, I always think of this song! I’m sure the rhythm has stronger roots elsewhere, perhaps in Latin American carnival type music, but that’s just what sticks in my mind.

To further disect the final line of fills, you also will need to play a triplet at the end of the first bar whilst counting ‘4 trip let’ and on the second bar there is a flam on beat 2 followed by a floor tom on beat 2 +.

Going back to the start, it’s also important to observe the driving accents on the beat, which should be played on the floor tom, and not really the bass drum. This also goes for the second line. Lines 3 and 4 could also be played with these driving accents on the ride cymbal if you would like to.

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Sheet 2 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Beginners

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This beginners drum warm-up exercise includes easy drum beats with quarter note ride cymbals. The quarter note ride cymbal drum beats start off sparsely, like they are not complete drum beats, and then build into more of a basic beat with a kick-snare-kick-snare rhythm. The drum warm up then finishes with a fully formed drum fill, which tries to stay easy at the same time as being mildly challenging and musically interesting.

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Sheet 1 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Beginners

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This 10 bar warm up sheet is for beginner drummers to learn and practice with at the start of a drum lesson or at the start of a practice routine. Once the sheet has been roughly learned, the drummer should try to play all of the way through the sheet in one go. No repeats are neccesary unless you want to.

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Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1

Advanced beginners drum warm up exercises for use in drum lessons, or for starting a practice or learning sessions.

This is the first sheet in a collection of drum warm up exercises that will be made into a pdf ebook. You can use and print the main image on this website for educational use, or you also have the option of purchasing a PDF copy of Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1.

In the sheet there is a snare drum rhythm exercise that has be made to sound good when repeated. Drummers should aim to increase the speed once comfortable with the rhythms. Likewise for the other exercises too. Start off slow and build up confidence and ability before going fast.

The flams exercise should be played by playing R L R L on all 8th notes, which is why one of the flams is played with the left hand playing the louder part of the flam, because it’s on one of the off-beat 8th notes. The second bar could be played R L R L or the 8th notes could be changed into paradiddles, meaning the second flam would be played with the left hand on the stronger note. Left handers will need to do the opposite to all of this.

The swing beat could easily be made harder but this could be the first time some drummers have been introduced to it so I’ve kept it fairly simple. The 8th notes are to be played with swing on the ride cymbals. If you don’ know what that means, have a listen to The Pink Panther theme tune and listen to the ride cymbals.

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Drum Lesson Warm Up – 6th Jan 2026

Drum lesson warm up for advanced beginners and early intermediate levels.

Since posting this, I have focussed on creating an ebook with similar content, so the title has changed a little bit and it’s now the 2nd exercise sheet of the book. You can use the image on here and print it if needed, or you can also purchase PDF of Sheet 2 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate.

This Drum lesson warm up for advanced beginners and early intermediate levels is a summary of some of the exercises I worked on today with my students. This will probably be of use to any drummers wanting some original exercises to work on as part of a drum lesson or to self learn.

There are two exercises with sextuplets, accents and the use of a paradiddle-diddle (RLRRLL).

There are exercises based on one drum beat with examples of how you can develop it.

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Introductory Exercises – Early Intermediate Drum Book

This is a free pdf download for the 5 page introductory section of the ebook ‘Early Intermediate Drum Exercises’. You need to follow the link and then click the ‘Preview’ link to get the free 5 page pdf of early intermediate drum exercises. This includes snare drum and practice pad exercises, subdivision exercises, co ordination exercises and drum beats to work on for grade 3-5 level drummers. There are some useful exercises such as moving from hi hat based drum beats to ride cymbal beats with stepped hi hats. There are also rudimental exercises, blues, funk, reggae and jazz styles, and 16th note hi hat beats.

Download the PDF by visiting the book’s page and clicking ‘Preview’

50 Beginners Drum Beats

This collection of 50 beginners drum beats features in my ebook Beginners Drum Book 2023. I am planning to update this book at some point so the 50 beats may change or become more than 50, but if I do create a newer version, the 2023 version will still be included as a pdf ebook. We start off fairly easy and by beat 21 the beats do get quite hard, learning Jazz beats with 4 way co-ordination. This selection of 50 beats can be learned as one topic, or it can be something to dip in and out of. Here are all of the sheets with all 50 beats, but if you would like the printable pdf, then you will need to purchase that here.

drum notation containing beginners drum beats — Drum Beat Exercises 11-22

Intermediate Drum Beats Fills and Exercises

I’m currently working on a new intermediate drum ebook for release in Feb/March 2024. I’ve posted quite a few worksheets on pinterest, which can be viewed on the TL Music Lessons Pinterest.

For a limited time (Up to the end of Feb 2024), learndrumsforfree.com readers can pre order the ebook for free using the following code: FEB24

Whilst we’re giving away free content, this code will probably last for a lot longer, until 100 downloads have been reached, and then the code will no longer work. Use the code NOTEBOOK2022 to download the drum exercises pdf booklet for free until the 100 downloads limit is reached.

Beginners Drum Book 2023

To Drummers,

I have a new drum book available for pre order, which includes some of the sheets that will be in the book when you pre order. I’m putting the price low, it’s only £1 to pre order and when it’s ready (by September this year), you’ll get the full copy sent by email. I’m going to be working on it over the summer and hopefully it will be an enjoyable book for teachers, students and anyone else to use, ready for the new school year in September. I’ll also make a video to help out with reading the contents of the book so that self taught drummers can follow along with ease.

Pre Order for £1: https://payhip.com/b/Rq2i9

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